The statistics behind UK steel job losses

More than 1,000 jobs are being cut at Tata Steel, the majority at the Port Talbot plant in south Wales.

It is just the latest in a line of job cuts in the UK steel industry.

Ministers say they are doing all they can to help, but they cannot control the price of steel.

John Moylan has been looking at the figures.

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